Russia, Europe and the World in the Long Eighteenth Century

Introduction

Rodolphe BAUDIN (Sorbonne University), Alexeï EVSTRATOV (Grenoble Alpes University), Paul KEENAN (London School of Economics), Vladislav RJÉOUTSKI (German Historical Institute, Paris)

I. Rethinking the Paradigms

–           Consciousness, Concepts and Agency in Eighteenth-Century Russia: from Histoire Totale to Histoire Croisée

Elise KIMERLING WIRTSCHAFTER (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA)

–           The Historiographies of Russian Culture: The Perspective of Fifty Years

Gary MARKER (Stony Brook University, NY)

II. State and Power Practices

–           The Problem of the Succession to the Throne in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The “Declaration of Rights” and Pravda voli monarshei in Catherine II’s Papers

Elena MARASINOVA (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

–           Count Otto Heinrich Igelström and the Failure of Enlightened Reform in Russia’s Southern Empire

Ricarda VULPIUS (University of Münster)

III. Geographies of Contact and Trade Practices

–           “Most Favoured Nation” or “Half Colony”?: Conflicting Interpretations of the Anglo-Russian Commercial Treaty of 1734

Tilman PLATH (University of Greifswald)

–           The System of Transit Trade of English Merchants with Iran via Russia in the 1730s and 1740s

Vera P. SIDOROVA (Moscow Region State University)

IV. Brokers and the Circulation of Cultural Practices

–           Quiet Observers or Secret Protagonists? Foreign Diplomats at the Court of Emperor Peter III

Tatiana TRAUTMANN (University of Kiel)

–           Enlightened Education at the Russian Court: The Swiss Governesses at Work

Danièle TOSATO-RIGO (University of Lausanne)

–           James Galiffe’s Experience as a Teacher: The Social and Intellectual Strategies of an Impoverished Geneva Patrician in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia

Rodolphe Baudin (Sorbonne University, Paris)

–           Samuel Bentham’s Mission to Russia (1805-1807) and the Saint Petersburg Panopticon

Roger Bartlett (University College London)

V. Reflecting Personal Experience

and Writing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Russia

–           Forms and Methods of Structuring Memoir Narratives in Late Eighteenth-Century Russia

Alexandra Veselova (Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg)

–           The Everyday Religious Life of a Russian Officer during the Seven Years War: Andrei T. Bolotov and the Activities of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Prussia

Mikhail P. Miliutin (Saint Petersburg State University’s Academic Gymnasium)

–           Shaping One’s Self in Letters: Mikhail N. Murav’ëv as an honnête homme of the Catherinian Period

Alexandr Ivinskiy (A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

VI. Being and Writing Female

–           The Everyday Life of Russian Women during the Reign of Peter I

Anastasia Vidnichuk (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

–           Natal’ia A. Neelova’s Literary Experiment: French Novels and the Elite Woman Writer in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Sara Dickinson (University of Genoa)

–           The Gender-Genre Question in Ekaterina S. Urusova’s Rogneda

Amanda Ewington (Davidson College, NC)

VII. Literary Practices and Traditions

–           On Bible and Liturgical Borrowings in the Odic Poetry of Mikhail V. Lomonosov and Vasilii P. Petrov

Evgenii Matveev (University of Jena)

–           European Sentimental Bestsellers in Russia

Hilde Hoogenboom (Arizona State University, AZ)

VIII. Literature and Politics: Forms of Literary Discourse

–           The “Ideal” Russia in the Correspondence between Valentin Jameray-Duval and Anastasiia I. Sokolova

Angelina Vacheva (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

–           The Topic of Peace in Nikolai M. Karamzin’s Letters of a Russian Traveller

Joachim Klein (University of Leiden)

Afterword

–           The Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia: The First 50 Years

Anthony G. Cross (University of Cambridge)

French Abstracts/Résumés en français

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